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From a whisper to a rallying cry, the killing of Vincent Chin and the trial that galvanized the Asian American movement, Paula Yoo

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Includes bibliographical references and index (pages [323]-374)

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From a whisper to a rallying cry

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Paula Yoo

the killing of Vincent Chin and the trial that galvanized the Asian American movement

"America in 1982: Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting U.S. autoworkers out of their jobs. Anti–Asian American sentiment simmers, especially in Detroit. A bar fight turns fatal, leaving a Chinese American man, Vincent Chin, beaten to death at the hands of two white men, autoworker Ronald Ebens and his stepson, Michael Nitz. Paula Yoo has crafted a searing examination of the killing and the trial and verdicts that followed. When Ebens and Nitz pled guilty to manslaughter and received only a $3,000 fine and three years’ probation, the lenient sentence sparked outrage. The protests that followed led to a federal civil rights trial—the first involving a crime against an Asian American—and galvanized what came to be known as the Asian American movement"--, Provided by publisher

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Killing of Vincent Chin and the trial that galvanized the Asian American movement